Trading Companies and the Business of Illusion

Firms are using a difference in the yuan exchange rates in Hong Kong and Shenzhen to make money off fake trades, especially involving gold

By staff reporters Fu Yanyan and Tian Lin

(Beijing) – Last year, the owner of an export processing company who we will
call Lin Minyao learned of an easy way to make money in Shenzhen, the port city
next to Hong Kong.

Like his fellow traders, Lin said he could set up two shell companies, one in
Hong Kong and the other in special areas set up to encourage trade in Shenzhen,
to fake trades and profit from the two city's differing yuan exchange rates.

Trading Companies and the Business of Illusion

Firms are using a difference in the yuan exchange rates in Hong Kong and Shenzhen to make money off fake trades, especially involving gold

(Beijing) – Last year, the owner of an export processing company who we will
call Lin Minyao learned of an easy way to make money in Shenzhen, the port city
next to Hong Kong.

Like his fellow traders, Lin said he could set up two shell companies, one in
Hong Kong and the other in special areas set up to encourage trade in Shenzhen,
to fake trades and profit from the two city's differing yuan exchange rates.

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